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To: malakhi
Adoption doesn't pass on kingship, tribal affiliation or priesthood. Someone adopted into a Levite family did not gain the ability to function in the priesthood.

Well, kingship and priesthood are Jesus' because of who He is, not His boiology. So it's irrelevant.

As for "affiliation" I am not sure what you are saying. Someone who is adopted and stays with a tribe for his entire life is not a "part" of the tribe? He can never marry, or must find some other "misfit" to marry?

SD

51,454 posted on 05/05/2003 10:08:58 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
Someone who is adopted and stays with a tribe for his entire life is not a "part" of the tribe? He can never marry, or must find some other "misfit" to marry?

Someone "adopted" into a different tribe (there was no legal adoption in biblical times) remained a member of the tribe in which they were born. Someone from the tribe of Judah did not gain the ability to serve as a priest simply because he was adopted into a Levite family.

Members of the different tribes could marry whomever they wished. There was no restriction on someone from Judah marrying someone from Benjamin. The children would be considered as being of the same tribe as the father. The only restriction was with the Levites, who were expected to marry within the tribe.

51,460 posted on 05/05/2003 10:18:09 AM PDT by malakhi (Sola Torah, baby!)
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To: SoothingDave
Well, kingship and priesthood are Jesus' because of who He is, not His boiology. So it's irrelevant.

Its relevant because to fulfil the messianic prophecies, he had to be of the "seed of David" (and the author of the gospel of John agrees!).

51,461 posted on 05/05/2003 10:19:59 AM PDT by malakhi (Sola Torah, baby!)
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